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Align different sized text

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May 15, 2023
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Hi Im simply trying to align left different sized text

I've read the community posts and googled re: why it occurs, the sloppy fixes (the best is to convert by "create oulines"), etc

Surely this is a bug that has been fixed?

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Correct answer rob day

Adjust the Paragraph Style’s Bullet or Number Position setting:

rob day

Community Expert

Optical Margin Alignment usage:

The text’s OMA set to the header’s point size

Sean5CF1Author

Inspiring

As above Rob

Bullets realign

Attempts to correct bullets leads to unwanted spaces - a similar space i try to remove initially

Note while etxt shifts right, all bullets shift left

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Willi Adelberger

Community Expert

That is not a bug. It is part of the font design. The designer does not want a geometric pure line, an optical alignment is important.
Never outline text in InDesign. It is a no-go. The only purpose to convert fonts to outline is for graphic purposes like filling a letter with an image or to manipulate a letter.

Sean5CF1Author

Inspiring

Thanks Willi

While this might be true (designers not wanting a geometric pure line), it looks sloppy

Optical alignment changes all following bullet and heading alignment in the same text box

So far outlining text is the only pure fix i have found, whether im using it to align text (manuipulate a letter) or for graphic design purposes. But this is also sloppy

rob day

Community Expert

Hi @Sean5CF1 , This comes up occasionally—the cause is the font’s metrics not an InDesign bug. All fonts include a side bearing dimension, and InDesign’s text alignment is optical which can be adjusted somewhat via the Story panel’s Optical Margin Alignment setting.

If you want to align a specific character you would have to kern a space before—see David Blatner’s CreativePro article here:

https://creativepro.com/removing-space-along-left-edge/

Sean5CF1Author

Inspiring

Thanks Rob

Researched all this previously and read the articles

Using optical margin alignment reconfigures all bullet points and headings alignment in the same text frame

My whole 600 page manual has only 1 font with consistent formatting throughout.

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The text looks left aligned to me (allowing for design overhang in the individual characters - which was absolutely deliberate). There is no bug if that's how the font was designed, it would be a bug to ignore the font's design.

JR Boulay

Community Expert

[MOVED TO THE INDESIGN DISCUSSIONS]

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kglad

Community Expert

acrobat?

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Sean5CF1Author

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Im so glad you mentioned how difficult the forums and website is to navigate. I feel like a noob everytime i come here (twice a year)

I realy would appreciate if you could move my post if that isn't a big imposition. i could be here another half hour, as i was posting the last post

thank you

sean

kglad

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i moved it to the acrobat forum. is that the app you're using or would indesign be better?

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